Shoe buttoner and horn.



No. 41,192. :PATENTBD JAN. 15, 1907'.

' J. L; SUMMER.

SHOE BUTTONER ANDTHDBN APPLICATION rmm 1m 2a. 1906.

-W|TNESSES lmvamow ATioanEy j UN TED STATES PATENT QF-FICE. JOHN-L. SOMMER, or NEWARK, NEW JERSEY. SHOE BUTTO'NER Ann HORN.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 23, 1906. Serial No- 818,287.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN L. SoMMER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shoe Buttoners and Horns, of which the following is a specification.

The obj ects of this invention are to combine in a single implement a shoe-horn and shoebuttoner, to secure a simple and yet secure fastening of the two "parts together, to provide such a construction which shall be convenient and comfortable to the grasp, to save cost and labor in the manufacture, and to obtain other advantages and results as may be brought out in the following description.

Referring tothe accompanying drawings, in which like numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts in each of the several figures, Figure 1 is a front view of my improved device, and Fig. 2 is an edge view of the same. Fig. 3 is a detail view of a portion of the implement from its rear to show the manner of joining more clearly, and Fig. 4 illustrates the manner of grasping the device in the hand.

In said drawings, 1 indicates the shank por tion of the shoe-buttoner, having the usual curved or bent extremity 11.

2 indicates the body portion of a shoe-horn which at its small end has a tongue 3, curved or returned upon the back or convex side of the said shoe-horn. The said tongue 3 is perforated, as at 4, at its point 5 of bending, as shown clearly in the drawings, and through this perforation 4 is passed the shank 1 of the shoe-buttoner, said shank fitting the perforation tightly. The end of the shank is flattened arcurved, as at 6, to lie against the back of re shoe-horn 2, and the extremity of the tongue 3 is bent to lie, asat 7, upon the said flattened extremity 6 of the buttonershank. A rivet S is then assed through said extremity 7 of the tongue, flattened end 6 of the shoe-buttoner, and body portion of the shoe-horn, thus binding all the parts firmly and rigidly together. Preferably the said tongue 3 is tapered, being quite broad at its base, so as to secure suflicient strength against lateral strain, and thus it will be clearly apparent that the shoe-buttoner is held at two separated points with great firmness and rigidity, so that by the insertion of the single rivet the two parts-shoe-buttoner and shoe hornare securely connected.

Great simplicity and ease of manufacture are secured, and at the same time a completed Patented Jan. M319 7,

article is produced which will not work loose.

or/yield' in the hands of the user.

' The tongue 3 at its bend 5 is carried outward from the body of the shoe-horn, as shown in the drawings, and then at its ex-. tremity 7 brought closer to the shoe-horn, and this provides in the use of the implement a finger-hold or enlargement which lies be-. tween the forefinger and thumb in grasping the implement and gives a firm hold, as clearly shown in Fig. 4 of the drawings. Obviously the flattening of the shank of the shoe-buttoner at 6 enables the enlargement of the curve of the tongue to be made more pronounced.

' The shoe-horn is preferably made of sheet metal, such as is commonly used for those articles, and the other member or buttoner is of Wire properly drawn and shaped into the form described. Great cheapness and simplicity are thus secured in the device.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim as new is- 1. A shoe-horn having a tongue at the small end thereof bent backward upon itself and perforated at the point of bending, and a button-hookhaving a shank passed through said perforation, and a rivet through said tongue, shank and shoe-horn.

2. The combination of a shoe-horn, having an integral tongue at its small end returned or bent backward, and perforated at the point of bending, a shoe-buttoner having a shank lying in said perforation and a flattened exremity beyond the same lying bet een the shoe-horn and its tongue, and a'rivet through said tongue, flattened shank and shoe-horn.

3. The combination of a shoe-horn, having at its small'end an integral tongue curved backward at a distance from the body portion of the shoe-horn and brought at its exthe tongue andthe' underlying Wire member being secured to the shoerhorn body at that point.

5.. The combination of a sheet-metal shoehorn having at its small end an integral tongue curved outwardly backward and.

brought. at its extremity closer to the body of the shoe-horn, said tongue being perforated at its said bend, and a Wire member fitting m the said'perforation and having a flattened portion beyond the same lying between the approaches the shoe-horn body and its rounded portion provides an enlarged fingergrasp, said end of the tongue and underlying flattened portion of the Wire member belng secured to the shoe-horn body at that point.

Witnesses 1' CHARLES MUNTUeK, RUSSELL M. E ERETT.

JOHN L. SOMMER. 

